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Quotes About Temporary

Basketball's just something temporary that we do and we're blessed to do, but life is way more precious than this ball that we play.
~ George Hill
The State Department has promised they will never have another temporary mission facility like the one in Benghazi that is so lightly protected. But at the same time, history tends to repeat itself here, and so it might not repeat itself in exactly the same way as Benghazi.
~ Mitchell Zuckoff
Hypnotism is trespass into the territory of another's consciousness. Its temporary phenomena have nothing in common with the miracles performed by men of divine realization.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
For love, as he knew it, was an aberration, a form of temporary insanity, a shortlived state of autosuggestion. Love was a state which a wise man would prudently avoid.
~ Robert Sheckley
Anger is a transient hatred or at least very like it.
~ Robert South
There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary. Poor is eternal.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.
~ Robert Townsend
impermanence.
~ Robert Wright
Every construction is temporary, including the fire altar. It is not a fixed object, but a vehicle. Once the voyage is complete, the vehicle can be destroyed. Thus the Vedic ritualists did not develop the idea of the temple. If such care was given to constructing a bird, it was to make it fly. What remained on earth was an inert shell of dust, dry mud, and bricks. It could be left behind, like a carcass.
~ Roberto Calasso
She wondered if he was about to deliver another lecture about remembering death. As if a mother ever had to be reminded of that. Maybe it was just men who needed to acknowledge how fragile, how temporary, how unsafe life was.
~ Lisa Unger
I seem to have accidentally got married, but it's only temporary.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
They were like some popular cry, some vehement fancy, that comes down on a page of history for a day, and passes, leaving no other record at all except those lines on one page. And
~ Lord Dunsany
Well, friends, nobody owns nothing in this world. Even your breath is just loaned to you.
~ Loretta Lynn
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is.
~ Louis de Bernieres
But, like all happiness, it did not last long…
~ Louisa May Alcott
Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.
~ Ronald Reagan
Things are only white for a bit.' Emilie
~ Rose Tremain
There's surprising relief and regeneration in finding ourselves within a moment of genuine grace, however small or temporary it may be.
~ Darrell Calkins
I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.
~ John D. Rockefeller
We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because we weren't having success finding a CEO, our investors insisted that we hire these managers a temporary CEO and CFO. That didn't go great.
~ Tim Brady
Yet those few hours filled her with an assurance that the life she was going back to, which seemed so makeshift and unsatisfactory, was only temporary and could easily be put up with.
~ Alice Munro
I dead parting from them because in the short time we've been together they've been like family to me. Like family might have been, I mean.
~ Alice Walker
love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage of by removal of the patient from the influences under which he/she incurred the disorder. This disease, like Caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than the patient.
~ Ambrose Bierce